Cmd and Ping

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Dear Friends,
When repairing my DSL internet connection, the adminstrator used the
start/run then cmd then ping followed by numbers and waits to get a
response. What is these numbers following ping and what is the
response. Thanks in advance. Ism
 
ism said:
Dear Friends,
When repairing my DSL internet connection, the adminstrator used the
start/run then cmd then ping followed by numbers and waits to get a
response. What is these numbers following ping and what is the
response. Thanks in advance. Ism
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This will help explain that...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping

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The ping command allows the system to use direct addressing to contact and
verify the connection from your computer to another. The numbers the
administrator entered is a address on the network that he is sure will be up
and running at the time to verify the connectivity. The numbers that follow
are a series of times, measured in milliseconds, that it took for the
"packets" to arrive at the other computer. If there were a significant
connection issue, the ping would never arrive and time out, which would tell
the admin to check for other issues.
 
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